Saying to a stock, Thou [art] my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: for they have turned [their] back unto me, and not [their] face: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.
Ver. 27. Saying to a stock, Thou art my father,] i.e., My God. Isa 44:17 We are not the children of fornication, said those boasting Jews; Joh 8:41 that is, we are not idolaters, who say, as here, to a stock, Thou art my father. The Samaritans they called bastards.
But in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.] Thus in their month they will be found. Jer 2:24 When they had run themselves barefoot in following their lovers, Jer 2:25 who answered their expectation with nothing but fear, and sent them away with shame instead of glory, then God was thought upon and sought unto. Let us make God our choice, and not our necessity, and labour to maintain such constant cause with him, that he may know our souls in adversity, and not turn us off, as he doth these, with,